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Books on: Yoruba

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Yoruba Land Law

Book by P. C. Lloyd; Oxford University Press, 1962

Subjects:

Land Tenure (Yoruba Law)

Collections: Entire Library

YORUBA LAND LAW YORUBA LAND LAW P. C. LLOYD PUBLISHED FOR THE NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL...Types of Cases 28 4. YORUBA TOWNS 30 Social Structure...
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Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory

Book by Maureen Warner-Lewis; University of Alabama Press, 1996

Subjects:

Yoruba Language--Dialects--Trinidad

Collections: Entire Library

Trinidad Yoruba Trinidad Yoruba From Mother Tongue to Memory Maureen Warner-Lewis THE...1CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA Warner-Lewis, Maureen Trinidad Yoruba : from mother tongue to memory / Maureen Warner-Lewis p. cm...
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Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief

Book by E. BO+̩laji Idowu; Longmans, 1962

Subjects:

Yoruba (African People)--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

OLODUMARE God in Yoruba Belief BY E. BO+ LAJI IDOWU, B...have reference to the religion of the Yoruba, the Deity has been assigned a place...Very few people who really know the Yoruba can escape the uneasy feeling that there...
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African Philosophy: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities

Book by Segun Gbadegesin; Peter Lang, 1991

Subjects:

Africa--Economic Conditions--1960-, Africa--Social Conditions--1960-, Philosophy, African, Philosophy, Yoruba, Yoruba (African People)--Social Life And Customs

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...African Philosophy Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities...Segun, African philosophy: traditional Yoruba philosophy and contemporary African realities...references and index. 1. Philosophy, Yoruba. 2. Philosophy, African. 3. Yoruba...
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The Woman with the Artistic Brush: A Life History of Yoruba Batik Artist Nikoe Davies

Book by Kim Marie Vaz; M. E. Sharpe, 1995

Subjects:

Batik--Nigeria, Davies, Nike Olaniyi, Textile Designers--Nigeria--Biography, Yoruba (African People)--Social Life And Customs

Collections: Entire Library

Nike Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles. The Woman with the Artistic Brush traces her life history and illustrates the strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule. Presenting a critique of the woman's place in contemporary Yoruba society ...
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Nike Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles. The Woman with the Artistic Brush traces her life history and illustrates the strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule. Presenting a critique of the woman's place in contemporary Yoruba society from the perspective of a woman who lived it, this book covers Nike's life from the time of her mother's death when Nike was six to the culmination of her dream in the creation, against severe societal odds, of a center for arts and culture that has over 120 members. Along the way, The Woman with the Artistic Brush details how Nike ran away from home and joined a traveling theater group after her father tried to arrange her marriage, subsequently married and joined in the polygynous household of a noted artist from the popular Osogbo school, and finally broke clear of that situation after suffering sixteen years of domestic violence. The Woman with the Artistic Brush is another superb contribution to the Foremother Legacies series.
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Journal Articles on: Yoruba

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Aworan: Representing the Self and Its Metaphysical Other in Yoruba Art

Journal article by Babatunde Lawal; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001

Subjects:

Art, Nigerian--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Self--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Yoruba (African people)--Art

Collections: Entire Library

...Representing the self and its Metaphysical other in Yoruba Art. by Babatunde Lawal Among the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Republic of Benin, the...It should be emphasized, however, that Yoruba is a tonal language, so that the same word...
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'Without Women, Nothing Can Succeed': Yoruba Women in the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), Nigeria

Journal article by Insa Nolte; Africa, Vol. 78, 2008

Subjects:

Political power--Demographic aspects, Political power--Social aspects, Power (Social sciences)--Demographic aspects, Power (Social sciences)--Social aspects, Women in public life--Social aspects, Yoruba (African people)--Political aspects, Yoruba (African people)--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

Without Women, Nothing Can Succeed: Yoruba Women in the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC...militant ethno-nationalist movement of the Yoruba people in south-west Nigeria. Womens inclusion...mouvement ethnonationaliste militant du peuple Yoruba, dans le Sud-Ouest du Nigeria. Il suggere...
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The Use of Human Images in Yoruba Medicines(1)

Journal article by Norma H. Wolff; Ethnology, Vol. 39, 2000

Subjects:

Cunas--Philosophy, Dogons (African people)--Philosophy, Indigenous peoples--Rites and ceremonies, Medicine--History, Occult medicine--History, Wood-carved figurines--Usage, Yoruba (African people)--Medicine

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

THE USE OF HUMAN IMAGES IN YORUBA MEDICINES(1). by Norma H. Wolff Indigenous healers among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria regularly utilize...the social world. Four major types of Yoruba medicine figures act as surrogates, messengers...
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The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World

Journal article by Alusine Jalloh; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World. by Alusine Jalloh The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World. Edited by Toyin...themes in African diaspora historiography is the Yoruba diaspora. Although the subject of the Yoruba has...
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Yoruba Religious Textiles: Essays in Honor of Cornelius Adepegba

Journal article by Norma H. Wolff; African Arts, Vol. 39, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Yoruba Religious Textiles: Essays in Honor of Cornelius Adepegba (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Yoruba Religious Textiles: Essays in Honor of Cornelius Adepegba. by Norma H. Wolff Yoruba Religious Textiles Essays in Honor of Cornelius Adepegba...Nigerian scholars, focusing upon an important aspect of Yoruba art and religious studies that has received little attention...

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Magazine Articles on: Yoruba

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Nigeria; How Yoruba Art Dazzled the Europeans; Herbert Wendt, a German Science Writer, Said It All: "Modern Ethnologists Have Found the Art of the Yorubas So Astonishingly High in Quality That They Did Not [at First] Ascribe It to a Negro Race." Well, Welcome to an African Civilization Dating Back to 600 AD

Magazine article by Herbert Wendt; New African, October 2006

Subjects:

Yoruba (African people)--History, Yoruba (African people)--Research, Yoruba culture--Research

Collections: Entire Library

Nigeria; How Yoruba Art Dazzled the Europeans; Herbert Wendt...Ethnologists Have Found the Art of the Yorubas So Astonishingly High in Quality That...Wendt By the 11th century AD, the Yoruba, ruling from the city of Ile Ife, were...
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We Need More Spirit, Less Obedience: Diran Adebayo, Yoruba by Origin, Wonders If Something in Africans' Upbringing Has Led to a Deferential Mindset That Makes It Hard for Them to Get Rid of Bad Rulers as Quickly as They Should

Magazine article by Diran Adebayo; New Statesman, Vol. 134, March 14, 2005

Subjects:

Africa--Political aspects, Africa--Social aspects, Africans--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

We Need More Spirit, Less Obedience: Diran Adebayo, Yoruba by Origin, Wonders If Something in Africans Upbringing Has...Rwandans, Southern Africans, even the loud and argumentative Yorubas (my crew). I have a friend, Brother Nye, who is wont to...
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An African Kingdom in America

Magazine article by Beirne Keefer; American Visions, Vol. 10, February 1995

Subjects:

Oyotunji Village, South Carolina--Services, Yoruba (African people)--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...Kingdom of Oyotunji, Nigeria. Capital of the Yoruba people of the Western Hemisphere, Oyotunji...forgotten in this 10-acre paradise of the Yoruba people. His Royal Highness Oba Oseijeman...1981 in Ife, Nigeria, reigns over all Yorubas in the Western Hemisphere from this post...
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The South Squares Up to the North

Magazine article by Pini Jason; New African, January 2001

Subjects:

Igbo (African people), Lagos, Nigeria (City)--Political aspects, Race relations--Political aspects, Yoruba (African people)

Collections: Entire Library

...that the Ighos of the southeast and the Yorubas of the southwest can never find a political...zone, have always viewed the Ighos and Yorubas with deep suspicion, and often with resentment...Democracy (AD) party, which holds sway in the Yoruba states, while 11 other states in the southeast...
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Rolled Paper Mosaic

Magazine article by Keasorn Thitacharee; School Arts, Vol. 101, February 2002

Subjects:

Silk--Works, Thailand--Art, Yoruba (African people)--Art

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Thitacharee Different cultures develop a variety of designs that fit the needs of that particular culture. In Africa, young Yoruba children create beautiful and intricate carvings on calabash gourds. Polynesians create overall textures on the facades of their...

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Newspaper Articles on: Yoruba

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Door Opens on Nigerian's Fine Carving

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, March 15, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...chief sculptor from his home region of Yoruba, Olowe of Ise (c. 1875-1938), had created...active patrons of palace sculptors in the Yoruba region. British Museum officials not...is now recognized as the most important Yoruba artist of the 20th century. Fortunately...
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Must We Immigrants Always Speak English?

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 23, 2006

Subjects:

Immigrants

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...BROWN WHITE Hart Lane Secondary School in Tottenham has pupils with 65 home languages between them, including Flemish, Turkish, Yoruba and Dutch Creole. Three years ago, the nowdeparted head, David Daniels, decided GCSE subjects should be taught in some home...
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Abacha's Successor Seen as Career Military Officer

Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, June 9, 1998

Subjects:

Abacha, Sani, Nigeria

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...past. The largest ethnic groups are the Yoruba and the Hausa, each accounting for about...estimated at more than 1 million. The Yoruba are predominant in Lagos and western Nigeria...northern Hausa and Fulani. It was after a Yoruba, Moshood Abiola, emerged as the apparent...
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Nigerian General Appears to Prepare for Civil Rule: Abubakar Sets Election Dates, Frees Prisoners

Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, October 8, 1998

Subjects:

Abacha, Sani, Abubakar, Abdulsalam

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...or at least the most vocal, among the Yoruba of Nigerias southwest. This reflects...Of Nigerias 107 million people, the Yoruba make up about 22 percent, roughly the...account for about 18 percent. Traditional Yoruba suspicions were intensified by the election...
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Support for the Powerful Wanes: Corrupt Military Exploits Ethnic Divisions to Justify Reign

Newspaper article by Ben Barber; The Washington Times, December 10, 1998

Subjects:

Abacha, Sani

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Hausas in the north, mainly Christian Yorubas in the south and Christian and animist...Association in the market. "They say `you are Yoruba, you are from the south, and so on. We...Third was Alliance for Democracy with many Yoruba backers. Now these parties are set to...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: Yoruba

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Yoruba

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

YORUBA yo rooba, people of SW Nigeria and Benin, numbering...Ibadan , and Abeokuta ) are in Yorubaland. The old Yoruba kingdom of Oyo was traditionally one of the largest states...Dahomey, and the growing contact with Europeans divided the Yoruba into a number of small states. In the second half of the...
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Ife

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...According to tradition, Ife is the oldest Yoruba town (founded c.1300). All Yoruba chiefs trace their descent from the first mythological...their ritual superior. Ife was the most powerful Yoruba kingdom until the late 17th cent., when Oyo...
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Awolowo, Obafemi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

AWOLOWO, OBAFEMI obafa me awolo wo, 1909 87, Nigerian statesman, a Yoruba chief, commonly known as "Awo." In politics from 1940, he was one of the founders (1943) of the Nigerian Trades Union Congress...
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SanterÍa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

SANTERIA san t re , san , religion originating in W Africa, developed by Yoruba slaves in Cuba, and practiced by an estimated one million people in the United States. Blending African beliefs with those of...
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Oyo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...calabash gourd. Oyo was founded c.1835 as the successor of Old Oyo (Katunga), the capital of the Yoruba empire of Oyo, which was destroyed in the Yoruba civil wars of the early 19th cent. Oyo is about 100 mi (161 km) S of Old Oyo. The city came under...

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